Not TakenShipping Consolidation
It would be nice addition if buyers were able to "Request an Invoice" from a seller if they have more than one item in the cart. That way, a seller such as myself can combine items into one shipping cost. At the moment, if someone buys 10 items from me, each item is charged a shipping cost. So if I have it at $1.50 an item, they are charged $15. Then, I have to refund them the difference and ultimately have to pay the PayPal fees on the total amount. I would prefer someone requesting a total and it sells the items to him and he can pay once I provide a shipping amount.
I know you can charge one flat rate or offer free shipping over an amount. Although, for international orders, I want to charge a higher amount if the total reaches $250 (for shipping security purposes). That is why I don't set up one flat rate.
I know you can charge one flat rate or offer free shipping over an amount. Although, for international orders, I want to charge a higher amount if the total reaches $250 (for shipping security purposes). That is why I don't set up one flat rate.
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I had to do this because I had customers ordering a single 0,14 stamp every day or so. Again today I got 2 orders from the same customer if UK within 3 hours. The mailing charges are horrendous and I'm not about to swallow them
If we had that option as seller all shipping cost issues should be solved, due to seller will be able to calculate the correct shipping cost on the buyer's invoice.
I also list on another site and the site offer " Request an invoice" buyers are not able to pay before I provide buyers the invoice with the correct shipping. In +_ 15 years I never had any issues,problems regarding the correct shipping cost.
Francois
https://www.hipstamp.com/store/stampboutique
On HipStamp, each individual listing has its own shipping settings. You can create one listing with no additional fees, such as stamps, and you can then create another listing with additional fees, such as covers. It's up to you.
The only thing you can do, as you noted, is to refund the overage on the shipping, and request FVF refund from Hip. This is just one more area where the site admin ignores what is best for their members.
It is all becoming very frustrating. I am only a hobbyist dealer. One can only imagine the frustrations of those for whom this is their livelihood.
Ted
Wouldn't setting up your shipping zone rates to include "with another item" solve your problem?
For example in my store shipping costs for the first item is $0.85 and each additional item is $0.10, so in your example of ten items a buyer would see total shipping cost of $1.75 and not $8.50
I would recommend that you review setting up the additional shipping costs using the options that we do provide, and as Michael highlighted above.